Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Jul 2

Adsense pub-6870423499136152

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive May 1


 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers

MER-C 09:57, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Completed records. MER-C 02:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

belajarbisnisonline-gratis.blogspot.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated spamming of blog onto multiple articles despite warnings from multiple editors. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:55, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

productvibe.com

 * links


 * accounts

Addition of price comparison/shopping link into multiple electronics product articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 17:45, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

atechs.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated addition of advert mention and disguising spamlinks in ref tags. See history of Expert network article. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Activity continued by IP, the user account has been indef blocked. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 14:56, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Still at it today:
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:16, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 17:16, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Interesting tool - Adsense/Google Analytics lookup
http://reverseinternet.com -- not sure how complete (=useful) this site is. A subscription required to view full results. MER-C 09:04, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

Society for Extreme Intelligence
-- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 15:28, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

onlinelawschoolreviewer.com

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated addition of linkspam on the Correspondence law school article, despite removal and warnings from multiple other editors. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:20, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Generic Chinese knockoff spam 11.0



 * Similar domains

"You konw wearing extremely high heels can damage the feet"

"but the quality and the light assortment could make you feel warm even if in such cold winter"

1-424-270-1990

"after we shipped your goods in 24 hours after received your payment"

"wholesale only accept Western union and we need your payment fax"

block already blacklisted end block

"pls come to oursite just click on the button of the 53kf"

"with excellent surroundings of convenient transportation & flourishing economy center"

"24-48hours after orderss placing, so we are not always able to cancel an order after it is placed"


 * Spammers
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see

Twas too quiet... MER-C 07:23, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

iqsociety.org

 * links


 * accounts

Repeated and on-going spamming of link into multiple articles. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 14:40, 18 July 2010 (UTC)




 * (Now adding these reports to same section per advice from more experienced editors. Time-stamp updated to latest report.) -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 20:26, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


 * WeijiBaikeBianji, please create a new section for a new case. I have reverted this editor.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:18, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the example of setting up a new section. I'm still learning how the templates work here with the overall structure of this project talk page. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 13:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You've already reported this, where you called it "an unreliable online source (blog) that persistently spams Wikipedia through I.P. editors". I've amalgamated the reports. MER-C 14:28, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Another consolidation. MER-C 02:38, 19 July 2010 (UTC)



MER-C 07:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Now revertlisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 08:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

pregnancynausea.org
Adsense pub-1826579438859206




 * Related domains


 * Spammers
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see de:Special:Contributions/82.137.36.158
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see de:Special:Contributions/82.137.36.158


 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see

MER-C 09:10, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Xj9-wakema



 * Misarxist (talk) 13:12, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Seems like a book site or reference site? Maybe a case of WP:GLAM?  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 14:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Adsense pub-6411885033054501
Google Analytics UA-6040143


 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2009 Archive Dec 1


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see

Missed spammers:
 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up



Revertlisted. MER-C 09:58, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

taggedtanakh.org
Not sure where to start .. many accounts focussing in the same area (throw away, or they forget old accounts?), some with clear coi. I think this has to do about the publication of the Jewish Publication Society of the JPS Tanakh, which they might be trying to promote here.


 * link


 * pages
 * Jewish Publication Society
 * Ellen Frankel


 * users

The domain is revertlisted. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:57, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

sweepsplay.com

 * links


 * prior reports
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Feb 1


 * accounts

Repeated addition of promotional link by multiple SPA accounts. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:04, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

topicalseo.com

 * links


 * accounts

IP SPA account repeated adding a blog front-end for a commercial website marketing search engine optimization software. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 02:07, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Motivation can be found here.  Them From  Space  10:20, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Generic Chinese knockoff spam 12.0


"A tracking No. of the parcel will be sent to you after delivered, you may track it online"
 * Similar domains

"Our Ugg Boot are selling all around the globe"


 * Spammers

MER-C 07:42, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

User:Tweetcash
I had this up at the COI noticeboard at first, but thought it might be better here. User registered today and so far has made only one edit to Twitter: adding a link to a site called tweetcash.org with text "How to Monetize Twitter". Here's my revert. Just the one edit so far. Northumbrian (talk) 00:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Added link summary  Them From  Space  08:14, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

elixirinteractivecomplaints.com



 * Spammers

Brand-reputation protection. --CliffC (talk) 18:03, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

fishoilblog.com
Repeatedly added to multiple articles, by multiple IPs and now most recently by User:NutrisaurusRex. See recent history of Fish oil, Omega-3 fatty acid and Omega Protein. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.227.210.71 (talk • contribs) 03:04, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

impresario.ch




Goes back to 2007; all IPs geolocate to Switzerland.  Them From  Space  07:49, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

soarerworld.com / soarercentral.com

 * Previous report on soarerworld.com


 * (redirect to soarerworld.com)
 * (redirect to soarerworld.com)
 * (redirect to soarerworld.com)

long term Forum spamming of wikipedia in which conduct has severely disrupted the project, including moving ones own link "UP", Adding redirecting sites, edit warring on article Toyota Soarer (causing pages to be locked ) and clear long term disruption. All of which are NOT a sign of good faith.
 * Accounts

Appears there is also a long term spam war with;
 * Accounts
 * Accounts

So per;
 * BLOCK
 * Persistent spamming
 * persistent vandalism;
 * edit warring, especially breaches of the three-revert rule;
 * breaching the sock puppetry policy;
 * persistently violating other policies or guidelines.
 * Accounts that appear, based on their edit history, to exist for the sole or primary purpose of promoting a person, company, product, service, or organization in apparent violation of Conflict of interest or anti-spam guidelines.

Both have been blacklisted--Hu12 (talk) 17:32, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

valueplacedebtsolutions.co.uk



 * Spammers

Unlikely this will ever be a legitimate link. --CliffC (talk) 21:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

User:Rconner
Has been inserting the same promotional (likely copyright) content and spam links across a large number of articles. Can somemone with a tool do a clean up sweep? Active Banana (talk) 17:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I got the few where rollback worked. About 40 links left. --Ronz (talk) 18:12, 22 July 2010 (UTC)




 * Spam pages


 * Additional spammers

There's some nice refspamming happening here. MER-C 02:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)


 * I've found two editors, one of them a SPA, who have made similar copyright violations as Rconner by copying information paragraphs into Wikipedia from thomaswhite.com articles, and .  I hope this is just sloppy editing. --Ronz (talk) 16:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not just spamming. In every case, it's copyright violation.  I've removed the remaining instances of Rconner's spamming and copyright violations. --Ronz (talk) 22:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Additional spammers
 * Karimobo has made multiple contributions, copying directly from thomaswhite.com articles. Bridgetansel has been adding links as references, but I've not looked into the details yet. --Ronz (talk) 23:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Karimobo has made multiple contributions, copying directly from thomaswhite.com articles. Bridgetansel has been adding links as references, but I've not looked into the details yet. --Ronz (talk) 23:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Karimobo has made multiple contributions, copying directly from thomaswhite.com articles. Bridgetansel has been adding links as references, but I've not looked into the details yet. --Ronz (talk) 23:07, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Opinions on coi spamming of today.yougov.co.uk?

 * Link
 * Accounts
 * I'm guessing InnovationsInterns has a coi, but definitely the ip. I've removed all InnovationsInterns's edits, which were to add information from their current surveys.
 * The ip's edits are mixed. Some, like  are undeniably linkspam.  Others, like, aren't so clear.
 * I'm guessing that the 298 links may indicate there are other such accounts and ips. Thoughts? --Ronz (talk) 16:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm guessing InnovationsInterns has a coi, but definitely the ip. I've removed all InnovationsInterns's edits, which were to add information from their current surveys.
 * The ip's edits are mixed. Some, like  are undeniably linkspam.  Others, like, aren't so clear.
 * I'm guessing that the 298 links may indicate there are other such accounts and ips. Thoughts? --Ronz (talk) 16:25, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * YouGov are a fairly well-respected UK opinion poll company, and are a reasonable source to use in a lot of contexts, particularly British election coverage. But a lot of these users' edits are trivial ("79% of UK Adults who watched [Sex and the City (film)] claimed to like it") and some inappropriate to source to a recent opinion poll without context ("[Reagan and Thatcher were] the American President and British Prime Minister with the perhaps closest relationship over time"). The articles they've chosen to edit have a strong overlap with the most recent entries on the YouGov blog, which is a bad sign, and from a Linkedin search, YouGov do appear to have a job title of "Innovations Intern". --McGeddon (talk) 09:17, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. It looks like the inappropriate additions have been cleaned up.  If the ip doesn't stop adding them and start discussing the situation instead, it will be blocked. --Ronz (talk) 15:14, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

dinamalar.com
Adsense ca-pub-7355227118918226 Google Analytics UA-2346178


 * Spammers
 * Citation spammer, see
 * Citation spammer, see

Refspamming despite warnings is not acceptable. MER-C 08:12, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

people2remember.com



 * Spammers

Site with user-generated content. This domain is revertlisted (for now). MER-C 10:50, 20 July 2010 (UTC)


 * They are both sleazy and ballsy, all they seem to do is copy the Wikipedia article into their own format. --CliffC (talk) 15:42, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 12:45, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * MER-C 08:31, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Bump, again. MER-C 09:30, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

docgautham.com

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam/2010 Archive Jul 1


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Inline spammer, see
 * Inline spammer, see

MER-C 09:11, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Adsense pub-1382635304617192

 * Sites spammed


 * Related domains


 * Spammers
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links



MER-C 08:09, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Kempinski Hotels http://spam.kempinski.com

 * Previous incidents
 * Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:KHCB1992


 * Spam pages






 * hu:Kempinski Hotel Corvinus


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see hu:Special:Contributions/KHCB1992
 * Cross-wiki spammer, see hu:Special:Contributions/KHCB1992


 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up
 * Spammer moved links up



Edits like this constitute a blatant repudiation of Wikipedia's mission. Additionally, most of the uploaded images are copyvios per Tineye. MER-C 09:34, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Added another spammer. MER-C 03:01, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

rangan-datta.info
Google Analytics UA-11823874-1



This is more intuition than anything, but edits like this look pretty dodgy. Is this self-promotion? MER-C 08:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Google Analytics UA-16537979
Adsense pub-1983002760559966


 * Spam pages


 * Sites spammed


 * Spammers
 * Vandalistic spammer, see
 * Vandalistic spammer, see
 * Vandalistic spammer, see


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links


 * Spammer replaced existing links
 * Spammer replaced existing links



Self-promotion by site creator. MER-C 07:32, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Updated. MER-C 07:49, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Recycled. MER-C 06:19, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

External link to option calculator repetedly added (after removal).
Ulner (talk) 15:25, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

reoallstars.com

 * links


 * accounts

SPA accounts repeatedly adding advert spamlink despite warnings. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:21, 31 July 2010 (UTC)